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TRAINERS VIEW OF SELLING RACES. Trainer Mas Hirseb entertains decided views on., ruing Helling races and a day nr two ago gave voire to the f lowing "pinion: "The object of selling races, a* the name implies, to afford owners ;m opportunity la lis;..,-e of borees which tbej do not desire lo keep in I heir stables; tail a sell-ing races art ■ aducted at present, an owner who de-ires to dispose of one of his horses through a selling race at what tx considers a fair valuation is prtotii .ill, si nt off from doing so. "Suppose a man has a horse worth ,500 and enters him to be sold at a valuation Which, plus the sum of lirst money, would make an that amount. lie meets horses worth from ,000 to ,000 i nten I in the lame mce at a valuation actually lower than that which be lias place. on his own horse. What chance lias be to win? No ie in the World. Resides this, who i- likely to claim hi borae after he baa run unplaced among horses valued at pro,- I, |ow that which be baa set on his QWB borae, and which are able to boat him doing anything ! "If he tries t i.ty the winner when he la of fered at auction after the race be finds that his owner is rend and willing to protect him np to his actual mine, and all that be can gain bv his r p i- la-ling ill will of a wealthy and probably influential owner along with .that of a long string of trainers and owners who may be counted among hi- following, "Theoretically, of coarse, he ma. claim any under-valued horse in tin race arhlcb has rail« 1 to win: bill a- hi- v i-h i- to -. !| :i nc I not to buy. ii i- quite within be limis of possibility thai he ma. not i» flnanciallj in ■ position to claim and pay for one of these beaten and under-valued horses. He is in the unenviable position of Inning tried to sell hi- home for what he deems him Worth anil of Inning run him and had him beaten and cheapened by the race-. "I bave no aonbl that even With the auction provision left out, it would happen often thai some owners might be deterred rronl rlalminc an undei rained winnei bj the fenr of incurring the enmity " ■ popular no Influential owner: hul with the winner always liable to claim, that evil would correci Itself it, i short time, for many men would be found ready to trade off a little temporary poo- i ulanty for a real yood bargain in a. race horse."
